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The Ministry of Information and Communications has just asked Facebook to explain why they include the Paracel and Spratly islands on a Chinese map. A Chinese map with the Paracel and Spratly islands on Facebook Vietnamese Facebook users have complained that the Paracel and Spratly islands were included in the map column of the Advertisement app on Facebook relevant to China. Many advertisers have said that they will stop advertising on Facebook unless the company fixes and update their Map app. The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has also asked Facebook to explain their decision but haven’t received a reply. Vietnam was Facebook's seventh largest market with 64 million users as of July 2017, accounting for 3% of the total Facebook users worldwide. In 2015, Google removed the Sansha reference on Google Maps following opposition from Vietnam. … [Read more...] about Complaints about Paracel and Spratly reference on Facebook app

One of Vietnam’s leading mobile operators, MobiFone, has partnered with Google to allow subscribers to purchase apps in the Google Play Store and pay via their mobile phone.
Both prepaid and postpaid customers can use the service. They need only enable the MobiFone payment feature in their account on Google Play and provide personal information upon request, such as address and subscription number, and can then immediately buy applications and games, with payment charged directly to their MobiFone mobile account.
The new service aims create more flexibility and increase security for customers in internet trade.
Users do not have to provide a variety of personal or credit card information during the transaction, avoiding revealing accounts and becoming vulnerable to fraud and theft, according to MobiFone.
Mr. Bui Son Nam, Deputy Director of MobiFone, said this payment method was becoming more and more popular … [Read more...] about Google apps payable by MobiFone

Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, according to several sources familiar with the situation. Facebook is planning two tiers of video entertainment: scripted shows with episodes lasting 20 to 30 minutes, which it will own; and shorter scripted and unscripted shows with episodes lasting about 5 to 10 minutes, which Facebook will not own, according to the sources. All of the sources asked to remain anonymous because the deals are confidential. Facebook's move to acquire and license original content is the latest in its push to attract more advertising dollars, putting the company in head-to-head competition with Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube Red, Snapchat's (SNAP.N) Discover feature, and traditional television networks. It is an attempt to deliver on Facebook Chief … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Facebook signs BuzzFeed, Vox, others for original video shows – sources

Facebook Inc added a feature to its Messenger app on Monday to allow users to share their locations continuously for up to an hour, ramping up competition with tools offered by Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google Maps. The company has found that one of the most used phrases on Messenger as people talk to friends and family is "How far away are you?" or some variation, Stan Chudnovsky, head of product for Messenger, said in an interview. "It happens to be what people are saying, what they're interested in the most," he said. Sharing location information is optional, but it can also be live, so that once a user shares the information with a friend, the friend can watch the user's movement for up to 60 minutes. Messenger was once part of the core Facebook smartphone app, but the company broke it out as a separate app in 2014 and has since invested in frequent changes to build a service distinct from the massive social network. Google Maps said last week that it was adding a similar live … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Messenger app adds live location-sharing

With the release of a new video app called Clips, Apple Inc is inching one step closer to fully engaging in the messaging world, where its huge base of iPhone users could help it compete with Snap Inc's Snapchat and Facebook Inc's Messenger. Clips, which will hit Apple's App Store in April, lets customers take videos and add animated captions and titles, complete with colorful emoji symbols. The app also makes it possible to stitch together multiple video clips and add speech bubbles and filters. The functions closely resemble those that drive Snap's wildly popular Stories feature. With Stories, Snap users string together photos and videos, embellish them and then post them to their feeds. Apple's new Clips lets users post their video to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and more. But if users post them to Apple's own Messages app, Apple will recommend whom to share it with based on which friends are in the videos and whom the user frequently contacts - the kind of predictive social … [Read more...] about Apple drives further into Facebook, Snap territory with video app